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Our Year Back At Monmouth In Red Cross Stakes Monday

Posted Sunday, May 26, 2013

It’s been nearly one year since Our Year has visited the
winner’s circle, that trip coming on July 21 right here at Monmouth Park.She returns to the Jersey Shore
in hopes of capturing her fourth lifetime victory in Monday’s $60,000 Red Cross
Stakes.

“She loves it
here,” said trainer Tim
Hills.“She needed her last race coming off the
layoff and this looked like the right spot for her.Two weeks is a little quick to come back, but
she’s doing so well right now that we thought we’d give her a shot.”

That last race
was May 13 at Parx, where she finished third as the 2-1 favorite in an
allowance event at six and a half furlongs, a distance that Hills believes is
just a little too far.“Six furlongs is her
distance,” said Hills.“She ran well
last out.It was a good effort off the
layoff.”

Our Year, a
5-year-old mare by Grand Slam out of the Boston Harbor mare Secret Crush, has
won three of her 12 lifetime starts with two of those victories coming at
Monmouth.She broke her maiden at second
asking in April of 2011 at Gulfstream and came back with a dominating
performance in an entry level allowance at Monmouth that May.

Joe Bravo,
13-time Monmouth Park riding champion, will be aboard Our
Year for the first time in the Red Cross.